Traction-wheel.



C. R. TRAXLER. TRACTION WHEEL.

APPLICATION FILED M0. 1, 1909.

1 ,004,3 1 3. Patpnted Sept. 26, 1911.

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CISCO R. TRAXLER, OF WINSTON SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICANFARM TRACTOR C0., OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

TRACTION-WHEEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1911.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, 01500 R. TRAXLER, residing at Winston Salem, in thecounty of Forsyth and State of North Carolina, have "invented a new andImproved Traction- Wheel, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improved traction wheel for use in motor driventractors and the invention consists in providing a traction wheelcomposed of two sub'wheels on a common shaft spaced apart and connectedby radial blades which have radial movements and are adjusted by meansof screw threaded devices.

all of the blades.

In the drawings, like numerals and letters of reference indicate likeparts in all of the figures.

40 is the shaft on which the hubs 73 of the wheel sections 4 aresecured. Each whee] section 4 includes a hub 73 and a rim 72 joined byspokes 74. The wheel sections 4 are placed apart and are fitted withdisks 70 on their inner sides, the disks 70 being secured to the rims 72by lag screws as indicated in Fig. 2 or in any other desired way. Therims 72 on their inner sides are radially slotted at 12 and the disks 70are correspondingly slotted at 11.

Fitted in the slots 1211 and projecting between the two wheel sections 4are the radially adjustable blades, or lags 13, which have lugs 14 intowhich the screws 15 are threaded, the screws 15 passing through lugs 16on the disks 70. The screws 15 swivel in the lugs 16 but do not movelongitudinally therethrough.

In the forms shownin Figs. 1 and 2 the blades or lags 13 areindividually adjustable while in the form shown in Fig. 3, the lags orblades 13 are simultaneously adjustable. This is accomplished byproviding the screws 15 with pinions 115 that mesh with gears 18 on thehubs 17 on the disks 70, the gears 18 being turnable on such hubs byinserting a spanner wrench or lever in the sockets 80 and turning thesame.

The gears 18 are held on the hubs 17 by cap plates 19 as shown.

I claim-q 1. A traction wheel consisting of a pair of disks spacedapart, radially adjustable cross blades having their ends mounted insaid disks, and means on each disk for simultaneously adjusting thecorresponding ends of all of the blades.

2. A traction wheel com osed of a pair of wheel sections each inclu inga hub, a rim and spokes connecting the hub and rim, and

each including a disk mounted between the hub and rim, said rims andsaid disks having radial slots, blades mounted with their ends in saidslots and means for radially adjusting said blades.

3. A traction wheel composed of a shaft,

a pair of wheel sections each including a CISCO R. TRAXLER.

Witnesses:

FRED G. DIETERICH, ALBERT E. Dm'msmorr.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G.

